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Missouri Republican Party

The Missouri Republican Party is the affiliate of the

governorship
.

History

Francis Preston Blair Jr. was the only Republican member of congress from a border state at the beginning of the American Civil War. However, he proposed that the state party instead merge with the Missouri Unionist Party.[1]

Blair and other Unionists in Missouri supported the removal of John C. Frémont's military command and the rescinding of his emancipation order. However, B. Gratz Brown, the former chair, supported Frémont. Blair and Brown disagreed on gradual compensated emancipation and slave colonization with Blair in support and Brown in opposition.[2]

The Radical Republicans, including Brown, held a separate convention in 1864. They sent an uncommitted delegation to the 1864 National Union National Convention which was seated. Brown wanted to send a delegation to Frémont's Radical Democracy convention.[3] This delegation was the only one to vote against Lincoln.[4]

The Radical wrote the state constitution in 1865, which emancipated slaves[5] while Blair returned to the Democratic Party.[6]

Members of the party left to form the Liberal Republican Party. Brown, their gubernatorial nominee, won the 1870 election.[7]

Current Republican officeholders

Members of Congress

U.S. Senate

U.S. House of Representatives

Statewide offices

References

  1. ^ Abbott 1986, p. 22.
  2. ^ Abbott 1986, p. 23.
  3. ^ Abbott 1986, p. 27-28.
  4. ^ Abbott 1986, p. 37.
  5. ^ Abbott 1986, p. 39.
  6. ^ Abbott 1986, p. 47.
  7. ^ Abbott 1986, p. 215.

Works cited

  • Abbott, Richard (1986). The Republican Party and the South, 1855-1877: The First Southern Strategy.
    ISBN 0807816809
    .

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